Welcome to a special weekend-edition of FiveThirtyEight's weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, managing editor): Hey, everyone! We've convened here on a weekend(!) to talk about President Trump's…

As smart speakers take off in the home, it's important to note that cars are an even bigger market for voice assistants. Some 77 million US adults use voice assistants in their cars at least monthly, compared with 45.7 million using them on smart…

Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames, the central waterway of a city at the center of a rapidly…